Vol. 13 No. 073 (2025): Issue 073
The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies have published the 73rd issue of Siyasat Arabiya, a bimonthly peer-reviewed journal of political science and international relations. This special issue, titled “Forty Years of Constructivism in International Relations," opens with an introduction by the editor, Mohammed Hemchi, and features a foreword by Nicholas Onuf – a pioneering founder of social constructivism in International Relations, titled “What Should We Make of 'Anarchy Is What States Make of It'?". The issue includes the following articles: “After and Beyond Alexander Wendt: Mapping Constructivist Pathways in International Relations" by Mohammed Hemchi; “Security from a Constructivist Perspective: Security Is What States Make of it" by Abdennour Benantar; “Transformations of the Arab Regional Order: A Constructivist Approach" by Marwa Fekry; and “Alexander Wendt Meets the Middle East: The Construction of Difference within Collective Identities" by May Darwich. The translation section includes Alexander Wendt's article, “Anarchy is what States Make of it: The Social Construction of Power Politics", translated by Sarah Ismael. The issue also documents key developments in the democratic transition in the Arab world and Palestine during the period from 1 January to 28 February 2025. It further features Sarah Nasser's book review of Alexander Wendt's Social Theory of International Politics and Quantum Mind and Social Science: Unifying Physical and Social Ontology.
